MS now craves good publicity, they organize things like Debian 8 release celebration (this cost them at least 50k), release first program that works straight away on linux ('code' for visual studio), sharp was open sourced, what a great time for maemo, because MS bought maemo from nokia. Open sourcing it costs them 0, and we can bring tons of good publicity just by cheering. Slashdot, reddit, you name it, will write about MS doing what nokia never could, so much more open they would be. Next announcement maemo programs run natively on windows 10

MS unlike nokia have 1k lawyers hired around the clock, checking maemo is a little nuisance, still covered by running costs (edit: and they just bought it, you believe it wasn't lawyer reviewed before buying?)

Did they buy it or was it just baggage that came with the bits of Nokia that they bought?

Good point, it might be like the ark of the covenant in indiana jones disappearing in a warehouse. But worth a try? They really appreciate good PR in the open source community since a while, dusting off that crate might stil be possible?

To be honest, I think we should really get in touch with MS, if not for opensourcing maemo (I don't believe it will happen), but for allowing the community to host the stuff that was on OVI and Nokia repos.

Do we still have council (seriously, I got lost in all this 3 letter abbreviations)? Or it is some other entity that should initiate that contact.

To be honest, I think we should really get in touch with MS, if not for opensourcing maemo (I don't believe it will happen), but for allowing the community to host the stuff that was on OVI and Nokia repos.

Do we still have council (seriously, I got lost in all this 3 letter abbreviations)? Or it is some other entity that should initiate that contact.

They are in 'we LOOOVE open source here in Microsoft, soon we will adopt motto do no evil' phase, might as well ask them for the source, can we get anyone with high following to tweet at them?